Alan Juffs
Director of English Language Institute
PhD, McGill University
MA, University of Durham
BA,
University of London
Contact Info:
2833 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-5901
E-mail: juffs@pitt.edu
Area of Specialization
Linguistic theory
Second Language Acquisition
Syntax and semantics
TESOL
Working memory and sentence processing
Selected Publications
DeKeyser, R. M., & Juffs, A. (2005). Cognitive considerations in L2 learning. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 437-454). Mahwah, NJ: Lawence Erlbaum Associates.
Juffs, A. (2004). Representation, processing and working memory in a second language. Transactions of the Philological Society, 102, 199-226.
Juffs, A. (2005). The influence of first language on the processing of wh-movement in English as a second language. Second Language Research, 21, 121-151.
Juffs, A. (2006). Grammar and parsing and a transition theory. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 69-71.
Juffs, A. (2006). Processing reduced relative vs. main verb ambiguity in English as a Second Language: a replication study with working memory. In R. Slabakova, S. Montrul & P. Prevost (Eds.), Inquiries in Linguistic Development in Honor of Lydia White (pp. 213-232). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Juffs, A. (in press). Working Memory, second language acquisition, and low-educated second language and literacy learners. LOT Occasional Papers: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics.
Spinner, P., & Juffs, A. (2006). Acquisition of L2 gender: locating the source of the problem. Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, 1, 333-344.
